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  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneacab rule
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    17 days ago

    Random people who just want to get into a position of power don’t pass.

    Not sure about rural towns but I’m pretty sure this is the case in most cities/big towns in the US as well. It’s just that police training in the US tends to systemically filter decent human beings out of its system. Not exactly random, more like maximally bad by design 🙃


  • I wouldn’t be surprised if my town was the exception and not the norm (I’m from a relatively progressive town in a consistently blue state) but at my public high school I only knew of 1-2 people out of the 500 people in my grade that stood up during the pledge of allegiance and a good percentage of the grade hated them because they were high key homophobic.






  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRowling rule
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    The 3 worst ones that immediately came to my head were Kingsley Shacklebolt (he’s Black), Cho Chang (she’s East Asian), and the Patil twins (they’re Indian). I’m sure there are others that are just as bad though, alongside the numerous other stereotypes in the stories (the house elves, the goblins, etc.).

    I read those books as a child and then a few years ago I rewatched some of the movies and realized how awful the subliminal messaging is.





  • Also cooling! Right now each interaction from each person using chatGPT uses roughly a bottle’s worth of water per 100 words generated (according to a research study in 2023). This was with GPT-4 so it may be slightly more or slightly less now, but probably more considering their models have actually gotten more expensive for them to host (more energy used -> more heat produced -> more cooling needed).

    Now consider how that scales with the amount of people using ChatGPT every day. Even if energy is clean everything else about AI isn’t.


  • The problem is that we only have a finite amount of energy. If all of our clean energy output is going toward AI then yeah it’s clean but it means we have to use other less clean sources of energy for things that are objectively more important than AI - powering homes, food production, hospitals, etc.

    Even “clean” energy still has downsides to the environment also like noise pollution (impacts local wildlife), taking up large amounts of space (deforestation), using up large amounts of water for cooling, or having emissions that aren’t greenhouse gases, etc. Ultimately we’re still using unfathomably large amounts of energy to train and use a corporate chatbot trained on all our personal data, and that energy use still has consequences even if it’s “clean”


  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 months ago

    Ngl I’m Gen Z and I have no clue who either of these people are.

    I also kind of live under a rock tho, the only TV show I ever really followed was the first few seasons on Stranger Things, and I don’t listen to pop music. I don’t really pay attention to specific actors/celebrities unless they do something bad enough outside of acting that it breaks into my news feeds.